KUALA LUMPUR: A Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) subsidiary company manager was charged in the Sessions Court, here, today with submitting false lodging and subsistence allowance claims amounting to RM1,855 two years ago.
Norhayati Hamzah, 50, pleaded not guilty to the main and alternative charges read out to her before judge Rozina Ayub.
On the first count, Norhayati as a manager at TNB Power Generation Sdn Bhd, was charged with submitting four documents containing false lodging and subsistence allowance claims between Dec 22, 2019 and Feb 5, 2020 totalling RM1,855 with the intention of deceiving the company’s Audit and Compliance Department manager, Mohd Kamal Zulkawi.
The documents with the false details were used by Norhayati to confuse Mohd Kamal while the accused knew that the trip and stay were not made.
The offences were allegedly committed at the TNB Power Generation Sdn Bhd office, Bangunan Penjanaan, Jalan Bangsar, here, between Jan 17 and Feb 26, 2020.
She was charged under Section 18 of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 and can be punished under Section 24(2) of the same act, which provides for a jail term of up to 20 years and a fine not less than five times the false claims sum or RM10,000, whichever is higher, upon conviction.
Norhayati also faces an alternative charge of using four genuine documents containing lodging and subsistence allowance claims which she knew were false, with the offence committed at the same time and place. The offence...
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